Monday Oct 06, 2008
Posted by ck
As you can see from the photos - I'm being quite literal. Today was the first day of Machane Yehuda's annual Kaparot Market. Every year, Jerusalem's central market hosts this temporary slaughterhouse where those that follow the Kaparot ritual can go and kill them some chickens.
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David USA: Chickens die every day. I fail to see what is barbaric about this. A shochet, even a busy one, should take care that the chicken does not suffer. The flesh of the bird is used as food, not wasted, and a ritual of significance to some takes place. Really, I think there is a beauty in the symmetry of this. How does this become less barbaric if one simply donates money which is then used to purchase a dead chicken for the needy? I personally fell that, if anything, we need more opportunities to reflect on these matters: life and death, sin and redemption, human wants and spiritual needs.
S Judah: You are all getting your , how shall I put it "Chickens in a Twist "
1. The blogger is a veggi, what has being a Veggi got to do with Kapporot? Suggest you use a Soya Chicken instaed then.
2. The Rambam does not mention this subject (but I agree he would not approve).
3. Kapporot is mentioned by the Gaonim, but not with chciken.
4. The Ari Hakodash does approve and how are we better then the Ari to disagree with him?
5. The Chicken has to be slaughtered according to Halacha and is distributed to the poor - how is that wrong?
6. Using money as I just have is a good substitute.
Ariel, Jerusalem: Which part of chicken kapparot is controversial here: the twirling of the bird above your head, or the ritual slaughter (shchita) and then donating it to a hungry family to eat?
People eat chickens all the time without thinking how they got killed...how is kapparot any different?
In fact it's a mitzva because it's going to feed a poor family...
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